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Topic: Image tearing in Mint 14 (Read 7603 times)

I'm not sure if this should be posted here or in the official Mint forums or maybe the Gramps mailing lists, but I've posted here for initial advice

I use a genealogy program called Gramps that I have installed on 2 pc's one running Mint 14 the other peppermint 3, the program works fine on both PC's except for one thing, In Mint 14 the ancestry view is a mess, some images are greyed out until I hover a mouse over them and some of the text is torn (for want of a better word), it seems that this is some kind of windows compositing issue but I'm not sure, It's not really a big deal but it would be nice if it was fixable because it does spoil the enjoyment of using the program.

I've attached 2 screenshots one showing the view in peppermint and the other in Mint

Many thanks

Graeme

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If you can keep your head while all around are losing theirs, then you're not quite grasping the situation

Have you tried going into Cinnamon settingss and turning OFF "Desktop Effects" ?

I tried that it makes no difference

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You might be better off with Mints MATE desktop +/- Compiz

That's not really a route I want to go down I know cinnamon has it's issues but i like the mindset behind it's development and where I see it going and In my view cinnamon will be the best desktop around given time, although I think E17 looks good don't you ?

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Or Peppermint <--- Sorry couldn't resist that

Mark you are peppermints greatest advocate and I too like peppermint, I have it installed as a second OS on this PC, on my grand-daughters PC and on my old laptop, but I do like the polish of Mint / cinnamon although I have to say that Mint 14 is the only version I've been a little disappointed in

Graeme

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Hi SeZoThanks for your advice , unfortunately I've given completely wrong information I don't have a spare AGP slot as I thought, but I freed up a PCI slot but I only have 1 PCI graphics card which is a Creative CT735-VBQ, so I've installed that , do you think that will serve the purpose ?

Graeme

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I'm pretty sure there isn't a fallback mode for Cinnamon, to be honest I'm getting pretty fed up with Mint with this latest version (14 Nadia) it's just been one annoying issue after another since I installed it, which is a shame because all the previous versions I've used have been bullet proof, so I'm finding myself using Peppermint more and more, It's not as shiny and polished as Mint but it works, and I can wait till Mint 15 arrives and maybe then try Mint again

Many thanks

Graeme

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If you can keep your head while all around are losing theirs, then you're not quite grasping the situation